PEOPLE v. GREEN

Docket No. Crim. 5782.

47 Cal.2d 209 (1956)

302 P.2d 307

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. EARL COMPTON GREEN, JR., Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 19, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin F. Beach and Ben E. Nordman, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, William E. James, Deputy Attorney General, and Roy A. Gustafson, District Attorney (Ventura), for Respondent.


SCHAUER, J.

Defendant was charged with the murder of Joseph LaChance. He pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. He was tried before a jury which found that he was guilty of first degree murder and expressly fixed the penalty at death, and further found that he was sane at the time he committed the offense. Defendant's motion for new trial was denied and he was sentenced to death. This appeal, wherein defendant asserts insufficiency of the evidence...

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